“It is a shame that we must continue to use a worthless system because it was good a thousand years ago.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Why, an' thou shouldst live a thousand years thou'dst never hear so masterful a cursing. Alack, her art died with her. There… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We shall remember … Damascus, the "Pearl of the East", the pride of Syria, the fabled garden of Eden, the home of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: "It is a remarkable progress. In five or six thousand years… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Now what has kept your leaves so green, Arbre Fée de Bourlemont? The children's tears! They brought each grief, And you did… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Damascus, is simply an oasis, that is what it is. For four thousand years its waters have not gone dry or its… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In time, the Deity perceived that death was a mistake; a mistake, in that it was insufficient; insufficient, for the reason that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
